.
>> MANY OF YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED
I WASN'T HERE ON THE 18 CORE
DESK, LAST WEEK I HOPE YOU SAW
SOME OF MY REPORTS I WENT TO
PUERTO RICO TO SEE THE
DEVASTATION FIRSTHAND.
>> MANY STILL HAVE QUESTIONS
ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON.
WEED CAN YOU SEND IN
QUESTIONSs AND WE JUST WANTED
TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT YOUR TRIP.
I HAD THE CHANCE TO SIT DOWN
WITH VIC AT LUNCH ON FRIDAY AND
IT WAS JUST, SOME OF IT WAS
REALLY HARD TO HEAR, YOU KNOW,
ABOUT WHAT YOU WENT THROUGH
BEING THERE.
AND YOU WERE ONLY THERE FOR A
FEW DAYS.
SOME PEOPLE JUST DON'T HAVE THE
OPTION TO LEAVE AND COME BACK.
TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU EXPERIENCED.
>> WE FELT IT ALL, I WANT TO
PREFAS THIS, I WOULD NEV
COMPLAIN BECAUSE WHAT PEOPLE ARE
DEALING WITH DOWN THERE AND WILL
BE DEALING WITH FOR THE NEXT SIX
MONTHS, NEAR, POSSIBLY TWO IS
UNIMAGINABLE WHAT WE WENT
THROUGH IS A SMALL SLIVER OF IT.
WE FLEW DOWN WITH THANK YOU
IS AIR FORCE, THE GEORGIA AIR
GUARD, THE 165th AIRLIFT
WING OUT OF SAVANNAH, GEORGIA.
WE FLEW FROM SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
UP TO HOPE AIR FORCE BASE IN
NORTH CAROLINA TO PICK UP
SUPPLIES AND TROOPS AND W FLEW
OVERNIGHT ABOUT 5 AND A HALF
HOURS IN PUERTO RICO.
WE LANDED IN SAN JUAN, THE SUN
WAS COMING UP AND YOU COULD JUST
SMELL THE SEWAGE, SMELL JUST --
THE REMNANTS OF THE STORM OUT
THERE.
THEY'RE USING GENERATORS TO KEEP
THE AIRPORT RUNNING, VERY
DIFFICULT.
WE WENT OUT THERE AND WE HAD TO
FIND TRANSPORTATION.
WE WAITED A COUPLE OF HOURS.
WE BOUND A VEHICLE, BUT WE COULD
RENT A CAR BUT DIDN'T HAVE ANY
GAS IN IT.
WE JUST HAD ENOUGH TO GO.
WE STARTED TO GO THROUGH SAN
JUAN.
WE WENT BEACH FRONT ASK WE JUST
SAW THE DEVASTATION.
WE SAW WIND DAMAGE LIKE I HAD
NEVER SEEN BEFORE JUST BECAUSE
THIS WAS SO STRONG.
WE'RE TALKING 150 TO 160 MILES
PER HOUR WINDS
>> WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS YOU
HEAR PEOPLE TALKING OBTAIN SAN
JUAN, THAT IS THE BIG CITY THIS
THAT IS THE CAPITOL THAT IS
WHERE THE RESOURCES ARE.
PEOPLE THERE ARE DOING SO MUCH
BETTER THAN PEOPLE IN OTHER
PARTS OF THE ISLAND.
OUR GOAL WAS TO VENTTUARY OUT
AND GO TO SMALL VILLAGES, THE
TOWNS WERE THE STORIES HADN'T
BEEN TOLD.
AND THAT IS WHERE IT WASES
DEVING AND HEARTBREAKING TO SEE
PEOPLE JUSTER DID NOT HAVE THE
ABILITY TO GET HELP.
I ASKED HAS FEMA BEEN BY?
HAS THE GOVERNMENT BEEN BY?
AND MANY TOLD ME NO.
I WAS IN BLUE POLO, THEY THOUGHT
I WAS FEMA.
THEY WERE VERY HAPPY TO SEE THE
NEWS.
NOTICIAS DOWN THERE, BECAUSE OUT
IN THOSE SMALL AREAS, VERY, VERY
FEW PEOPLE SPEAK ENGLISH.
BUT THEY WERE HAPPY WE WERE
TELLING THEIR STO ONE
GENTLEMAN WALKED US 10, 15
MINUTES DOWN THE STREET TO SHOW
US HIS HOME.
HISHOME WAS DESTROYED, JUST
DESTROYED.
>>> I REMEMBER THAT
STATISTICALLY THAT WAS
HEARTBREAKING AND THEN WATCHING
THE PEOPLE WE'RE ABOUT TO SEE.
BUCKETS OVER, I MEAN TO A CREEK
AND THAT CREEK -- IT CAN'T BE
CLEAN.
>>> DOWN BELOW THERE IS A FAMILY
WASHING THEIR CLOTHES IN THERE
AND HE SAID HE NEEDED TO FLUSH
HIS TOILETS TO BATHE AND THESE
PEOPLE, IT IS NOT A THIRD WORLD
COUNTRY.
THESE PEOPLE HERE SPECIFICALLY,
THEY WEREN'T PARTICULARLY POOR,
YOU KNOW, THEY HAD A NICE
VEHICLE, BUT THEY STILL DIDN'T
HAVE THE RESOURCES BECAUSE OF
WHERE THEY LIVED.
YOU KNOW, WE GAVE THEM WHAT WE
COULD, WE COULD ONLY PACK THE
FOOD AND WATER THAT WE COULD
CARRY ON OUR BACKS.
WE GAVE THEM SOME OF OUR
RATIONS.
UNFORTUNATELY, THEY'RE GOING TO
BE DEALING WITH THIS FOR SO
LONG.
>>> THEY ARE WHEN YOU HEAR ABOUT
US TALK ABOUT FUND-RAISERS AND
DIFFERENT EVENTS COMING UP,
STILL VERY MUCH IN NEED AND IT
IS GOING THE BE FOR WEEKS AND
MONTHS AND THANK YOU FORGOING
AND I KNOW YOU'RE GOING THE BE
BRINGING MORE LIGHT TO THIS IN
THE COMING DAYS NOW THAT YOU'RE
BACK.
>>> WE'RE GOING THE RELEASE SOME
WAYS THAT WE CAN HELP.
I'M TRYING TO BRAINSTORM, TRYING
TO FIND THE BEST WAY TO DO IT.
IT IS JUST NOT AN EASY FIX.
I'M GOING THE BE DOING CHARI
STUFF, FUND-RAISERS TO HELP
THOSE PEOPLE.
LY NEVER FORGET ABOUT THE PEOPLE
OF PUERTO RICO.
THERE IS GOING TO BE NATIONAL
CONTROVERSY.
TALK ABOUT OTHER THINGS.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO FORGET ABOUT
THEM, ESPECIALLY THE PEOPLE IN